Those careening free-radicals are causing billions of dollars a
year in health care! Are you next?
Free-radicals careen around wildly like unguided missiles,
damaging everything they touch and causing a chain reaction of
trauma. It is now well established that free radicals are a
critical factor in most health problems, including hardening of
the arteries, which can lead to conditions involving the heart,
eyes and bone/joint health (Knight 1995) & (Cures, Robert
Willix, M.D. 1994)
A most interesting fact about free radicals is that they cause
the same reactions within cells that occur during exposure to
radiation, and the results of these reactions are
indistinguishable from those of natural aging (Riley 1994).
Consequently, it has been suggested that certain compounds known
to protect against radiation damage also would be useful
antioxidants and may even be beneficial for increasing life span.
Free radicals are even suspect to be an important mechanism of
aging; the more of them that are running amok, the greater the
vulnerability of healthy cells. However, there's a way to take
back your power, up the odds in your favor and defeat this
deadly force.
Free radicals are not always harmful; they're used by the immune
system to destroy many invading microorganisms. In bone and
joint problems the body's own antibodies begin to attack the
joints, causing cellular damage, as they are unleashed by the
body upon itself (Barber 1994).
But free radicals tend to react with cellular DNA, often causing
the DNA strand to actually break. There is also strong evidence
that FREE RADICALS may not only initiate DNA mutations, but also
encourage damaged cells to multiply.
Scientist, Dr. Denham Harman, M.D. PhD founder of Free Radical
Theory of Aging feels that the free radical reactions play a
significant role in the age-related deterioration of the
cardiovascular and central nervous systems. Free radical
reactions also may be significantly involved in the formation of
the neuritic plaques associated with senile dementia of the
Alzheimer type. In studies, these plaques were more prevalent in
senile people than in those who were not senile. Studies are
ongoing in that department.
Oxygen free radicals released in our bodies also destroy the
proteins that are essential constituents of the body, regulate
our hormones and enzymes and compose our nerves, muscles, skin
and hair. In other words, those wrinkles that we fear are also
the dirty work of oxygen free radicals. Created by both internal
consumption of processed foods and external use of chemical
laden products on our body.
Antioxidants can protect against free radical damage in the
body. In fact, unusually low levels of such antioxidants are
linked to an increased risk of damaged cell growths and heart
problems. As a result it is believed that taking antioxidant
vitamin supplements that "scavenge" free radicals can
potentially decrease this risk.
Are you practicing prevention? Prevention is always better than
spending thousands of dollars and ill health after the fact!
Daily prevention includes taking a quality liquid, powder or
capsule antioxidant compound twice daily or pick up each
individual antioxidant form.
Antioxidants are Selenium, Vitamin A, Vitamin E and
Beta-Carotene. These are found in small amounts in fruits and
vegetables of which we are unable to get in sufficient
quantities in our fruits and vegetables to keep our immune
systems tuned up and keep us as well as we can be, according to
the Congressional study done in 1936.
"Without your health you are nothing," is a phrase often
repeated to me by patients over the years and I believe them.
You should too! So I wish you good health and success in all
things.
Prevention starts with Vitamins along with liquid or powdered
minerals! Without the proper amounts you are opening yourself up
to free radicals! Reason why was noted as far back as 1936… See
US Congress messaged at
http://www.envirodocs.com/1936_excerpt.htm
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Antioxidant Free Radical Control Formula can be found at
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